176 Fisnine 1x American WATERS. 
a stained gut casting-line tapering from the reel-line to the 
stretcher, a well-selected cast of flies, with drops artistically 
fastened to the casting-line, and of proper length, a good 
landing-net and light basket, and Iam ready for the fray and 
to angle all day; for I never yet experienced a day long 
enough while fishing. ; 
Oh! the varied and mixed emotions of the fly-fisher. How 
often he is tantalized by false rises, which suddenly inflate 
him with hope, to collapse as soon by disappointment. Some- 
times he misses a well-intended rise of so bold an effort as to 
render the fish too much alarmed by the sights and sense of 
the upper air to trust a repetition. Anon he hooks a fine 
trout, and in playing it the hook parts from the jaw of the 
fish, leaving to conjecture whether it was really a disgorge 
or a too tender hold. Thus he continues whipping the water, 
exercised by various emotions, when a large feeding trout 
springs above the water, revealing all his beauties of color 
and proportions, and, taking the fly, he darts away with the 
power and celerity which prove that he is going to try the 
strength of the tackle. What interesting moments to the 
angler! The numerous runs of the fish, his wiles and strat- 
egy to escape, are all tried in vain, and he is finally helped 
out of the wet by means of the landing-net. 
The man or boy who has never taken a trout has not 
really seen one—with angler’s eyes. To the angler, a large, 
healthy trout in full season, just taken, when fish are scarce 
and bite shy, is the prettiest object in the whole world of 
beauty. 
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL TROUT FLIES. 
Letter A, the artificial, and B,the natural dun-cut fly (phry- 
ganea), is a good lure for the month of May. Body of 
brown bear’s hair, mixed with blue and yellow worsted, 
whipped with green and yellow; brown feather wings, and 
squirrel’s-tail hair for antenne. 
Letter C, the artificial, and D, the natural of the green-tail fly 
